For an upcoming conference, I'm supposed to bring copies of my own materials. One sentence contains a phrase that I'm a little unsure how to understand. First the Japanese sentence in its entirety:

参加者に配付する資料がありましたら,当日90部をご持参願います。

I believe I understand the conditional part and most of the rest. I understand it to say "if you have any materials to distribute to the participants, please bring then on the day [of the conference]."

Where I'm confused is the 90部.

My first instinct was to understand 90部 the name of an office or room at that university. But nothing else is named in that way in the document.

OR

My second guess is that it is saying I should bring 90 copies of the materials.

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So yes, 部 is a counter for copies of printed materials, as in sense 2a. This counter isn't limited to just newspapers and magazines like WWWJDIC appears to suggest, and it doesn't refer to a room number.